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« on: May 27, 2012, 01:42:42 PM »
My poem of the Transfiguration, Tabor, is on the web journal Pilgrim..

http://www.pilgrimjournal.com/index.html

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« Reply #1 on: May 27, 2012, 03:49:22 PM »
Very nice poem, Steve!  Congrats!
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« Reply #2 on: May 27, 2012, 05:54:13 PM »
Congratulations!
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« Reply #3 on: May 27, 2012, 06:53:48 PM »
Nice congratulations
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« Reply #4 on: May 27, 2012, 07:20:44 PM »
Steve,

I love your poem, but I have a question. Are you referencing Moriah here as the site of the construction of the Temple, and therefore representing Christ, destroyed...and in three days shall rise again. Or are you using Moriah as the place where Abraham offers Isaac? Or have I completely misunderstood?

Also, if I understand it as designating the Tranfiguration, were you surprised that Pilgrm included it in their Pentecost/Assumption issue, since the Transfig occurs prior.  And did you perhaps consider having death tested as hyphenated, which, to my reading clarifies. He descended (off from the Mount of the Transfig as I understand it, yet on Moriah's height. I am challenged here because I don't understand the full meaning of the Moriah reference. Or, if He descended to "be in our forsaken plight" do you mean then you are putting us back at the point of Abraham's knife? I don't mean to be obtuse. I'm sure the clarity is there, I am just not quite "getting it."
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« Reply #5 on: May 27, 2012, 07:31:10 PM »
Thank you Marly, Ann, lizbeth and Voca.
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« Reply #6 on: May 27, 2012, 08:54:27 PM »
Voca,

Thank you for your detailed response and observations.

I did not consider a hypen in death-tested. I think it would break the flow of the words.

According to tradition Mount Moriah and Mount Zion/ Jerusalem/Calvary are the same place. And of course there is also the correlation between Isaac and Jesus as the Lamb of God sacrificed for us.

Tabor is the mountain of the Transfiguration, which overlooked the plain of Armageddon. Moriah is Mount Zion / Jerusalem /Calvary. As St Paul said in Phillipians 2:

5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:

6 Who, being in very nature God, 
    did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
7 rather, he made himself nothing
    by taking the very nature of a servant,
    being made in human likeness.
8 And being found in appearance as a man,
    he humbled himself
    by becoming obedient to death —
        even death on a cross!

Peter, James and John wanted to build tents on Tabor and hang out in glory. Not so Jesus who knew his destiny was glory in the cross on Calvary not on Tabor.

The Feast of the Transfiguration of Christ is celebrated in the liturgical calendar on August 6th and the Assumption of Mary is celebrated on August 15th. So the Transfiguration fits into the Pentecost / Assumption period of the calendar. However the Gospel reading for the Transfiguration is also done on the second Sunday of Lent, which also has the reading from Genesis about Abraham and Isaac on Moriah.

In this poem I was also able to reference all of the following and more:
Genesis 22
Isaiah 9:2
Psalm 22:1
Matthew 4:16
Matthew 17
Matthew 27:45-46
Mark 9
Mark 15:34
Luke 9:18-36
Philippians 2:5-8
Revelation 16

I like the poetic form because I am able to pack all the allusions referred to above into only 40 words in 7 lines. For anyone familiar with scripture, all the images painted in those references would automatically be triggered by the poem. Certainly many clicked with you. And to the extent they did the poem was successful.

I hope I answered your questions.
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« Reply #7 on: May 28, 2012, 09:43:00 AM »
Thank you, Steve!

Before writing you I had re-read the Transfiguration accounts, but I did not know of the Moriah / Mount Zion equivalence. (Was also somewhat troubled because I couldn't quite reconcile Moriah's height with the plain. But indeed a plain can be high up.)
I understood immediately your allusions to love, law and the prophets, of course, with all three elements embodied in each of the three figures.
Since I follow the Lutheran liturgical calendar I knew that the Transfiguration is celebrated on the Sunday before Ash Wednesday. I had forgotten the Catholic calendar places it later in August.

But back to your poem - amazing! And thanks for listing all of your references.
Voca
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